Secrets from Beyond The Grave

Chapter 7 Man Is a Three-Part Being--One Part Dies, and Two Parts Live

Don't ever believe you were a birth accident . According to the inspired writers of the Bible, God foreknew you before your birth (Jer. 1:5). It was the Almighty who created you in your mother's womb (Ps. 139:13). God also ordained the season in which you would live (Esther 4:14). The Creator has also numbered your days (Ps. 90:12). God has also created you a tripartite being with a body, soul, and spirit: Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. --1 Thessalonians 5:23 When God formed you, He made you one of a kind. You have a distinct set of fingerprints, footprints, and a unique design in your eyes. Even your teeth have imprints that are distinctly yours, and when you speak, your voice tone and inflection have a pattern that distinguishes your voice from all others. Each human being has a gene pool in his or her DNA that marks that person as a single human being, different from all others. This uniqueness can only be explained as the work of a divine Creator who has the ability to design you as one distinct person among more than seven billion people. Doctors can effectively explain the miracle of conception, the formation of the fetus within the womb, and life development, but they have difficulty explaining death. Why do we age and eventually die? Human cells can reproduce themselves every seven years, yet death is the conclusion of life. While it may be a mystery to science, it is not a secret to God. The first man, Adam, was created without sin and sickness; however, when he rebelled against God and God denied Adam access to the tree of life, then sin led to physical decline, which eventually concluded in physical death. By one man sin entered the world and death by sin (Rom. 5:12). Adam was 130 years of age when his son Seth was born; he lived to be 930 years of age. Thus he experienced a spiritual separation from God, a death in his spirit, long before he died physically (Gen. 5:3, 5). When we attend a funeral, we all see the physical shell of the person lying in a coffin. What most unbelievers are unaware of is that the real person departed from the shell at the moment of death. The Bible is very specific in revealing that each human being is a tripartite being, consisting of a body, soul, and spirit. The body is simply the physical flesh part of the person. The soul and spirit are interconnected, and at times it is difficult to explain the difference between the two. In the Old Testament Hebrew, the word soul is nepesh and alludes to the life force. According to Leviticus 17:11, the life (Hebrew, nepesh ) of the body is the blood. The common Hebrew word for " spirit" is ruach and can be translated as " wind ," " breath ," and " spirit ." Thus, when God formed man, He molded a physical body. When God breathed into man's nostrils, Adam became a living soul (Gen. 2:7, KJV). God did not call Adam a living body , although he had a physical body, but a living soul . This is because God intended Adam to remain faithful and forever partake of the tree of life and live forever with Him in Eden (Gen. 3:22). In the Hebrew language, the word ruach has about nine different meanings! In the realm of the spirit world, there are three different types of spirits: The Spirit of God and the angels, who are spirits